The above HEART was presented by Joyce and Piet on the occasion of our wedding in 2004 and is one of the first items by Piet when you enter our home.
Category: PIET DIRKX
Piet Dirkx weekly… Parbleu
Parbleu is the famous remark when this comic character makes a remark to his fellow compagnion Tom Poes. This is also the tile by one of the small objects by Piet Dirkx from our collection. Parbleu was made in 1994 and has been in our collection since.
Piet Dirkx weekly
As promissed another detail which shows the thick layers of wax paint Piet uses to make his compositions. This painting was discussed earlier in another blog on Piet and has been presented on 3 locations before it finally was part of our collection. Among the locations was the Biotoop project at the Haags Gemeentemuseum.
Piet Dirkx weekly
The following weeks two more details of early Piet Dirkx compositions. The first is a detail of a long lath on which 13 wooden panels are placed. These panels are far from random ,because these panels are individual compositions/paintings by themselves.
These panels come from the work SHALL I COMPARE THE TO A SUMMERS DAY.
Piet Dirkx weekly
Here is a lesser known part of the art by Piet Dirkx. Every item that was on show is documented on the object itself by Piet Dirkx. Here is an example of the first object i ever bought at galerie ‘t Venster. These 3 cigarboxes are numbered and described how they must be placed on the lath.
weekly Piet Dirkx : SHALL I COMPARE THE TO A SUMMER’S DAY
This is a line from a Shakespeare sonnet . Piet Dirkx finds his titles everywhere and notes them on cigarboxes and Moleskine note books and this is probably one of the most illustrous of all. The work of art is also exceptional. The first time i saw it was at the first Piet Dirkx exhibition in the Ravesteijnzaal at the Haags Gemeentemuseum and this was the second work i acquired for my collection and never regretted it. It is long work of art , measuring aprox. 200 cm and its height being ca. 15 cm. The lat is tiles and signed and dated by Piet Dirkx. The work consists of 14 small paintings on wood , placed on a special lat.
weekly Piet Dirkx ” DIAPHANE”
What about Diaphane? Diapahe means delicate, so for me it means that the colors are carefully chosen and a re complementary to eachother. It is one of those works of art that never bores . Easy to find a spot for it, bringing joy just by being colorful.
Piet Dirkx, On four locations
There is a work by Piet Dirkx that has been with me as long as i know it existed. I first have seen this long multi colored wax painting in Piet’s studio. Later i noticed the same work being a part of BIOTOOP and after our purchase it was one of our favorite works by Piet on our Sijzenlaan location and now, it is still “going strong” as our entrance work of art. The painting has been a part of our lives for nearly 30 years now. Long live ” MUSIQUE ORIGINALE ”
Piet Dirkx…van Abbemuseum , 1985( continued)
This week i am making up for an incomplete blog . I just noticed that to make the story on last weeks blog complete i had to add the photographs of the inner sides of both objects which were on show in the Piet Dirkx exhibition at the van Abbemuseum in 1985. Pier had indicated on the inside of both boxes in what way both had to be combined and showed. So to make the story complete here are both insides.
Piet Dirkx weekly
One of the two recent editions was an object by Piet Dirkx which figured in the van Abbemuseum exhibition of 1985. With tnis exhibition a small catalogue in an edition of 500 copies was publihed. This catalogue is available at www.ftn-books.com
